Tom Waits films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 25 films on Boxlist

Known for Wild Horse Nine, Licorice Pizza and Wildwood.

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Starring Tom Waits

Wild Horse Nine
2026 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDBIn cinemas
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and...
Licorice Pizza
2021 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
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Wildwood
2026 · Film
8.9/10 · TMDBIn cinemas
Prue and her classmate Curtis are drawn into a magical forest filled with enchanted creatures, loyal allies, and formidable adversaries as they embark on a desperate quest to rescue Prue's abducted baby brother from a murder of crows led...
Short Cuts
1993 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the...
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman...
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Mystery Train
1989 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in...
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Down by Law
1986 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker, the reincarnation of Dracula's long-dead wife Elisabeta, obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.
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The Old Man & the Gun
2018 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes...
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Father Mother Sister Brother
2025 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Three stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other: a reclusive father visited by his grown children in the US, sisters visiting their novelist mother in Dublin...
Seven Psychopaths
2012 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
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The Outsiders
1983 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
When two poor Greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
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Until the End of the World
1991 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Set in 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with some bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law Dr. Farber, an American...
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Rumble Fish
1983 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
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Coffee and Cigarettes
2003 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking...
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Wristcutters: A Love Story
2006 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that...
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Keith Richards: Under the Influence
2015 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A portrait of Keith Richards that takes us on a journey to discover the genesis of his sound as a songwriter, guitarist and performer.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
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The Book of Eli
2010 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
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Motherless Brooklyn
2019 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
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Mystery Men
1999 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save...
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Ironweed
1987 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the...
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The Two Jakes
1990 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
This sequel to the classic Chinatown finds private detective Jake Gittes still haunted from the events of the first film. Hired by a man to investigate his wife's infidelities, Jake once again finds himself involved in a complicated plot...
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The Dead Don't Die
2019 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
In a small peaceful town, zombies suddenly rise to terrorize the town. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert must band together to defeat the undead.
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Twixt
2011 · Film
5.0/10 · TMDB
A declining writer arrives in a small town where he gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl.
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